Example sentences of "i [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked it . |
| 2 | I did that at Selby 's , I had the decoder , the new cabinet , everything , I had the decoder there hanging on the floor like that , I wired it up and I pressed extension sixteen and away it went , it said four there and the display decoder was there about ten extensions |
| 3 | The sail had been a hindrance , making sport of me at each whim of the wind , so I lowered it . |
| 4 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 5 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 6 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
| 7 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 8 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 9 | I do n't know why but I chucked it back in the water . |
| 10 | And then I chucked it out the window . |
| 11 | I chucked it out in the end . |
| 12 | I know I chucked it away . |
| 13 | So mum and Sarah 's got , I chucked it off . |
| 14 | I chucked it out the window and it landed on the ledge . |
| 15 | So I chucked it in the Tyne . |
| 16 | The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed . |
| 17 | I wiped it special . |
| 18 | I wiped it . |
| 19 | before I coloured it in . |
| 20 | I coloured it when I first met you did n't |
| 21 | I admitted it and there was a shorter pause , ‘ O.K. ’ said Mr. Workman , ‘ We 'll start you at $20 . |
| 22 | ‘ I admitted it . |
| 23 | I admitted it when it was me , I even fucking repaired the stool |
| 24 | Maggie approached Godfrey and said over his shoulder , ‘ I made it by the pound cake method . |
| 25 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Phew — I made it ! ’ |
| 27 | I made it my practice , not without some official misgivings , to work through the chairmen of the regional boards as a collective body , behaving , though they were my appointees , as no more than their primus inter pares . |
| 28 | ‘ I made it then , me old mate . |
| 29 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 30 | It was a long haul with my heavy bag to the bus stop at the top of town next day , but I made it and set out on a bus journey westward from Roscommon to Galway . |